BRUCE BARBER
Professor NSCAD, Media Arts and Visual Culture Studies
NSCAD Director, MFA Program, Media Arts and Visual Culture Studies, Film Studies

Teaching Fellow:
University of Kings College, Contemporary Studies, Film, Theory and Criticism.
Publications and Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Performance, Photography, Film, Video and related studies. Member: UAAC, (University Art Assn of Canada, CSA (Cinema Studies Assn), FSAC (Film Studies Assn of Canada)
Books:
1982-3 Barber, Bruce Essays on [Performance] and Cultural Politicisation Special double issue OPEN LETTER 5th series No's 5 & 6 Summer Fall 1983, Toronto, Coachhouse Press 1983
1992 Bruce Barber Reading Rooms Halifax, Eye Level Publications 1992
1996 Barber, Bruce, Guilbaut, Serge and O'Brian,John,(eds) Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power and the State, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1996
2002 Barber, Bruce (ed) Conceptual Art The NSCAD Connection 1967-1973 NSCAD Anna Leonowens Gallery,
NSCAD Press

Forthcoming:
Barber, Bruce Popular Modernisms: Art, Cartoons, Comics and: Cultural In/Subordination
(Final stages of editing before re submission to publisher)
Books i n Progress:
Art Crimes: Art, Film and Cultural In/subordination. Research being undertaken with the support of a three year 1997-2000 SSHRCC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant)
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Body Fluids in Art & Art History (with Susan Douglas; edited collected of essays) Essays in Books
1978 "Problems in the Taxonomy of Performance and Body Art" in Gale, P., and Bronson, A.A. (eds) Performance by Artists Art Metropole Publications, Toronto
1979 "The Function of [Performance] in Post-Modern Culture:A Critique" in Performance Text(e)s and Documents (ed) Pontbriand, C. Editions Parachute 1980-81
1980 "Performance for Pleasure and Performance for Instruction" in Balkind, A. (et al) Living Arts Performance Festival Publication Winter, Vancouver
1982 The Institutional Conceits of Theodore Wan" in Wan/Lake, University of Alberta Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue
1982 "Appropriation/Expropriation:Convention or Intervention" Introductory Catalogue Essay for Appropriation/Expropriation Exhibition. Mt. St. Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax, N.S.
1983 Introduction and contributing essay: Essays on [Performance] and Cultural Politicisation (ed) Barber, B. OPEN LETTER special double issue 5th series No's 5&6 Summer/fall 83 Coach House Press 262 pp.
"Halifax/Auckland Exchange" Introductory Catalogue Essay. Eyelevel Art Gallery Fall
"Radio:Audio Art's Frightful Parent" (edited) Published in Lander, D and Lexier, M., Audio By Artists Toronto, Art Metropole Publications 1990
"Auto-Interview" Performance au/in Canada (eds) Martel, R.., Richard- Martin-A, Robertson,and contributing eds C. Le Lieu Publications Quebec 1990
1996 "Ideas Without Work/Work Without Ideas: Reflections on Work, Value and the Volk " in Berland, J., Hornstein, S. Capital Culture: A reader on Mondernist Legacies, State Institutions and the Values of Art Montreal, Kingston, McGill/Queens University Press (2000)
1993 "Art History’s Significant Other: Film Studies" in Cheetham, M., Holly, M-A, Moxey, K. (eds), The Subjects in Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press
1998 "Jubal Brown’s Blague: The Sovereign Consciousness of In/Subordination" Catalogue essays in So High That I could Almost see Eternity, International Symposium of Performance Art Owens Art gallery and Struts Gallery, Sackville, N.B.
1998 "A Meditation on Brian Szeto’s Girl Washing Dishes", Belize 1993, Catalogue essay for Brian Szeto Children at Work, Artist Commune, Hong Kong (with Chinese translation)
2000 -"Three Modes of Canadian Performance in the Nineties" in Martel, R. L’art action 1958-1998 Inter publications (forthcoming July, 2001)
- "Littoralist Art practice and Communicative Action" in Andrew Parkin =, Medina Van der Plat (eds) Habermas Reader (Manuscript under review):
-"Three Modes of Canadian Performance in the Nineties" in Martel, R. L’art action 1958-1998 Inter publications (forthcoming)
-"Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection" (essay) NSCAD Anna Leonowens Gallery
- "Sentences on Littoral Art" A-R-C Web based art magazine Vol 1:2 2000 Goldsmiths College, London
-"The Gift in Littoral Art Practice" in Intervention: Post Object and performance Art in New Zealand Robert Macdougall Art Gallery
"The Gift in Littoral Art Practice"; "Sentences on Littoral Art" and "Littoralist Art Practice and Communicative Action " published on line
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